Farm Life Today

A friend of my neighbor's needed a place to graze his horse, Moe. Sweet boy!

Rose

Garden is in and growing slowly! More to add later. 

New baby plums.

Strawberries soon. 

Peas and brassicas. 

Hoof paring; the farrier was here yesterday for the donkeys.

Busy hen.

Redoing the inside of the big coop, dividing into 2 rooms for free ranging hens and separate area for the new chicks coming this week (after they get big enough to move out here)

My neighbor is bush hogging some of my fields, he is a really great guy. 

They might be hard to see

but the donkeys like to chill out in the trees behind the barn.

Hens are also hanging out behind the barn. 

Churro bundt cake mmmmm

Ready for the new chicks! I can't wait!

Gifts for the Northerners

Homemade soap and Tennessee moonshine. 

Graveling

I have a little "road" from the big hilly pasture that goes right up into the barn. A few years ago when I bought this place, it was mostly gravel, but now it is almost all dirt and thus it erodes and slides down the hill, along with myself when it's muddy. Wheee! So on days I have to dress up and leave the house, it is a conundrum - get dressed in good clothes immediately after waking/showering? Which is my habit, but risks a plop in the mud on my backside. Or, get dressed once in the am with farm work clothes, then feed the critters, then get dressed AGAIN in my good clothes. Hmmm....

Or, the boyfriend offers his wallet, trailer, shovel and himself as a grunt to help turn the road back into gravel! What a sweetie!

The pasture road is VERY steep in the middle section. We couldn't even get the trailer up it without bottoming out and the truck spinning tires in the mud. So, we decided to just DO the steep section where I have the most chance of slipping when it's muddy.

shoveling gravel is HARD work!

Above is the view from the top after we did about half.

View from the bottom. Well, from the middle actually. It covers enough that walking down it is much faster now and MUCH less precarious! Yay! We will probably do the next section soon. Or not LOL